About The Painting

Jason's Aura was another attempt to create a painting that was significant. As usual I was not really able to create my idea on canvas- still it was a nice try. I think that now I could do a better job so maybe I'll try again. This was my second portrait done several years after the Green Madonna.

An aura is the electromagnetic field that surrounds the human body and every organism and object in the Universe. The field is a collection of electromagnetic energies of varying densities that permeate through and emit or exit from the physical body of a living person. These particles of energy are suspended around the healthy human body in an oval shaped field. This "auric egg" emits out from the body approximately 2-3 feet on all sides. It extends above the head and below the feet into the ground.

My parents introduced me to a psychic named Sean Harribance. Here's a bio about him:

[Lalsingh Harribance was born to an East Indian family in southern Trinidad on November 11, 1939. He was raised as a Hindu, but attended Christian schools in his earlier years and was eventually baptized at the age of 26. It was at this time that he chose the name, Sean, by which he is known today. After leaving school during his teenage years, in order to help his family, he worked in the oilfield and later was employed as a cashier for the bus service. It was then that a man named Richard Jackman became aware of Sean’s abilities.

Mr. Jackman, than editor and manager of the Trinidad Guardian, became more and more interested in the accuracy of Sean’s predictions. After getting to know Sean, Mr. Jackman decided to introduce him to a psychologist named Hamllyn Dukhan. Dr. Dukhan had been informed of Sean’s acute perception and decided that scientific testing was necessary to document the full extent of his abilities.

After several years of testing, Sean was then invited to the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man to be further researched by Dr. J. B. Rhine in 1969. Sean worked with Dr. Rhine, Dr. William G. Roll of the Psychical Research Foundation, and various visiting professors and researchers. Thirty-four papers were published in scientific journals as a result of work done with Sean.

The studies were based on testing that was done under very strict conditions where the use of all five senses was blocked. The probability of Sean having gotten the test scores by chance was one in 100 trillion. Moreover, Sean was the first to get high scores on ESP tests where EEG, EKG and galvanic skin response sensors were used. He was also the first to show a link between high ESP scores and a specific brain wave. In 1976, the parapsychology labs could no longer give him a salary so he moved to Maryland in search of research funds from government sources. In Maryland he did some work with Mankind Research, and continued some part-time research with Duke University. Sean began to realize that by proving himself to others, he could generate further interest in parapsychology, and the psi research.

During his personal consultations with clients, which included doctors, lawyers, politicians and others, Sean continued to demonstrate that his abilities were genuine. After witnessing his extraordinary abilities, Sean’s clients spread the word and encouraged friends to visit him and experience these abilities for themselves. Sean’s number of clients continued to increase because of the accuracy of his predictions. Sean did not advertise. He made a number of successful national predictions, for when those come true it can convince a greater number of people and be further proof for ESP and precognition.

Unfortunately, Sean was not successful in obtaining the research funds he needed in Washington D.C. He found it necessary to move closer to his clients in Texas and Louisiana, those that had supported him since the early 1970’s.

In 1981, Sean has lived in Sugar Land, Texas with his wife, Christine, and two children. He continues to visit with clients. Since moving to the United States, Sean has done over 50,000 readings. Many visit him repeatedly over the years.

In 1995 the not for profit corporation, the Sean Harribance Institute for Parapsychology Research, Inc. (SHIPR Inc) was founded. In 1997 and 1998 Sean, Dr. Roll, and (in 1998) Cheryl Alexander (from the Rhine Research Center) traveled to Dr. Persinger at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, to participate in the brain studies presented at the Parapsychological Association meeting in August 1998. The SHIPR paid for the travel expenses for Sean, Dr. Roll, and Cheryl Alexander. The SHIPR is looking for funding to continue this research in brain studies with Sean and with other gifted psychics, and are looking for other proven psychics.]

Sean was great guy and noted psychic. He was not a fake, I could tell. So he did a reading for me and I brought him a photo of my girlfriend's child Jason who was 6 years old. He told me Jason would have problems both physically and emotionally and told me the colors of his aura. I then painted the colors he told me:

I gave the painting an ominious red background to show the impending troubles Jason would be facing. My girlfriend met someone and moved away, I never have heard from her and I doubt I will. I wonder how Jason's life turned out. He'd be about 32 years old now.

I saw Sean Harribance a few more times. He didn't drive a car and I gave him a lift to the track at Laurel, MD several times. He liked to bet on the horses (I was thinking, man, is this unfair, after all the guy is a psychic). He'd tell me which horses looked good (since he could read auras) and I made some small wagers on his advice. Curiously I won some money every time I took him but he lost money everytime I took him. I guess psyhics have trouble heeding their own advice!